Thank you Sir! I really enjoyed this video. Thanks from Denmark!

@FishKeepingAnswers

4 ай бұрын

Pleasure 👍🏻

Not looking to sell my shrimp but the knowledge you provide is great!

@FishKeepingAnswers

10 ай бұрын

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@bentleytelles7295

Ай бұрын

Same

Thanks

Great, informative, video!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind feedback 🫶🏻

Amazing video. Great tips

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

🫶🏻

Thanks for the tips...

@FishKeepingAnswers

2 ай бұрын

🤜🏻

Can't believe I missed this video, it will defo help me in the future

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

🫶🏻

Im doing all that with my red cherry shrimp. I have at least 3 saddled females, and over the past couple of days i have seen some empty husks. Im hoping for shrimplets soon 🤞🏻

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Love your channel 👍🏼

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the positive feedback. It's good to know my hard work is paying off

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

I just checked out your most recent video. Those Rams are stunning! 😍

@acuaristayuca

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks i hope i had a couple and have some baby Rami. Realy fan of your channel

just came across your channel and appreciate how often you reply to questions in comments. Subscribed. Im a beginner to shrimp keeping in the uk and currently waiting for my first tank to start cycling. However, i find keepers in forums/youtube make it so hard for a beginner. SO many mixed opinions when i've asked about trouble im facing. I feel i can trust your opinion on this question i have right now - im wanting to keep maybe 8 shrimp in a 2.5 gallon bowl (rather small, i know). Do you recommend cycling before adding shrimp, or would a fish in cycle be okay in my case due to the very small bioload? i could be wrong but i feel benefical bacteria will be able to take care of small amounts of bioload.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for taking the time to comment and subscribing. Welcome aboard! For some reason there are so many people who want to make out keeping Red Cherry Shrimp is some sort of mystical activity that only the enlightened can master. Your new tank sounds perfect for a small group of shrimp. So you do need to cycle a new aquarium, however, the bio load of 8 to 10 shrimp is so low, just adding a few live plants from an existing aquarium can bring in enough beneficial bacteria to get you started. Would love to hear how your shrimp keeping journey gets on. 🤞🏻

can you grow your own shrimp food at home or in your backyard? like a worm tub, duckweed and a mint plant for example?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

You can 👍🏻

Hi Richard, I have been in the aquarium hobby for years. Recently started with neocaridinas, so still fairly new in the shrimp game. Came across your channel searching for general breeding information. Found the answer to my question in one of your replies in the comments. ☺ Love your video's.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hi. Thank you so much for taking the time to share positive feedback. Good luck with your shrimp breeding journey 🤞🏻

Thanks for the video Richard. I started the 100 day Yellow Shrimp challenge with you but I have yet to find a berried female. I may need to change my water changing frequency. It’s starting to get disappointing.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

If changing water hasn’t proved helpful, try not changing it. See if a period of stability is what they are after. Also, make sure they are getting enough protein 👍🏻

what kinds of food would you recommend if i dont want or can not feed them daily? i would prefer to disturb them as least as possible. i would prefer something i could just throw in and replace when its gone like a week later.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Ай бұрын

Leaves like stinging nettles or catappa leaves can be dropped in and left for a few days. Repashy gel food also remain stable for up to 48 hours in the aquarium

Hi. Thanks for video. I dream of having so many shrimp in my tank!! My 6 are still all active but no young yet! Have temp of water at 23 and see some nice moults have taken place - must get the blood worms- maybe that’s what is missing😀😀😀 K

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure the babies will follow soon. I assume you don't have any fish that could be eating them, or a hang-on-back or canister filter that could be sucking them up? 🤔

@mikekayanderson408

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Hi - put in a sponge filter to prevent loss of young. No fish in tank either. So am not sure what the problem is. K

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

😕

I have 300 shrimp and they have pretty much stopped breeding. I probably need to start doing water changes more often, been doing it once every 1-2 months :/

Hello, thank you. Very informative. I wonder: is there a difference between "red cherry shrimp" and regular "cherry shrimp"? Thank you

@FishKeepingAnswers

11 ай бұрын

I suspect Red Cherry Shrimp and Cherry Shrimp are the same, but the problem with common names is a vendor can call them what ever they want. I could sell really bright Red Cherry Shrimp as something totally made up like Red Hot Poker Shrimp, and no one can stop me 🤷🏻‍♂️

@stefDB

11 ай бұрын

​@@FishKeepingAnswersThank you for the swift response! If I were UK based, I would definitely buy from you 👍 I love how transparent you are about your business.

@FishKeepingAnswers

11 ай бұрын

Thank you. Have a great day 🫶🏻

I'm new to the Hobbie and concerned I'll have too many shrimp in my 10gal tank. I setup a clear plastic toat for culls. The tank is about 3 months old starting with 4 fire Reds. If I had to guess I now have hundreds. I don't see and Berried shrimp due to their color but I have babies from 1 day old up. Looks like 3 generations. I don't want to sell shrimp. Any recommendations on overpopulation? Is there such a thing.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Typically shrimp will balance their own population based on how much you feed them. We keep 600 or more in our 6 gallon breeding tanks. Equally, if I only ever drop 1 algae water in a month, the population would drop to meet the amount of food available. As far as what to do with your extra shrimp, you could approach your local store and see if they will swap a bag full of shrimp for what ever it is you need. A tub of food or a couple of plants maybe. 👍🏻

How do you prep oak leaves to put in the tank? Thank you

@FishKeepingAnswers

10 ай бұрын

Personally, if the leaves are dry and you know they are pesticide free, I would just add them to the tank. They will sink in due course 👍🏻

What type of repashy gel food are you feeding your shrimp?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

That particular one is Grub Pie, but I typically feed them Community Blend 👍🏻

I have 3 . I’m hoping I have a female!!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

🤞🏻

@uddinwiththeballz

Жыл бұрын

Damn bro 3 is a bit too little for shrimps to multiply

@hansjas

Жыл бұрын

@@uddinwiththeballz we will see . They are growing nicely

@Heidi.lin...69

Жыл бұрын

I'm hoping to start a dozen some will die that's normal

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, you only need two for shrimp to multiply 👍🏻

Thanks for the info. In regards to feeding I'm currently feeding a colony of around 50 shrimp 1 algae wafer and a pinch of powdered tropical fish food daily. Would you say that's enough?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

To my mind, they could probably do with a little more food. Maybe give them a cube of frozen bloodworm or similar. 🫶🏻

@ricardosmythe2548

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers thanks for the advice I will get some and see if it increases production, 3 berried so far. Your channels content couldn't be better timed from my perspective. I hope you do well from it you deserve too 👍

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Would love to hear how you get on with your shrimp colony

@ricardosmythe2548

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Thanks I will keep you updated.

Please give me red cherry shrimp ❤❤❤

Hallo Richard, My name is Patrick from the Netherlands. I've been a hobbyist for a couple of years and I started selling my shrimp since about 6 months. My questuon to you is... How do you keep the sellable numbers up so you can keep on selling? How many tanks do you have with the different colours? And how do you keep your collonies going? Do you buy new starter collonies or do you only use your own shrimp? I can sell for a while but then have to stop so they can breed new stock. I hope you find the time to answer me or even do a video about this. Lots of luck with your business and your channel. Kind regards Patrick

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hi Patrick, thanks for taking the time to comment. So when we first started breeding shrimp to sell we had the problem that we would build up a colony, sell all the best ones, then when we were down to about 50 or so shrimp, have to wait several months for the colony to rebuild itself. The solution was as follows. We let an individual colony reach 600 to 800 shrimp, then remove the best looking 100 shrimp and place them in to a new tub to start the next colony. We could then sell to remaining 500 to 700 shrimp. We haven’t bought any new stock for many, many months. We usually have 3 colonies of each colour on the go at any one time. Hope that helps. If not, just come back to me 👍🏻 Richard.

@patrickhetharia6216

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Thanks Richard! I didn't expect an answer this quickly! That's exactly the problem I have. Your sollution sounds great! Thanks for your advice and keep on the good work with your channel!

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

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I have keep neocaridina shrimp for years, they have always reproduced well. For the last 6 months, I don't have a single baby in any aquarium. How to make them reproduce? There are no fish in the aquariums, there are sponge filters in each one, I feed them various things...

@dylanhughes5944

4 ай бұрын

Same, except it's been 2-3 months. They reached 300+ in a 15 gal and then stopped. They get plenty of food. Must be an oversaturation of their hormones in the water. More water changes must be needed. Stable is good, but with so much shrimp the hormone saturation must make it impossible for males to find the correct female to mate with. This explains the females always dropping their eggs now. They must not have been properly fertilized due to excess hormones everywhere

So are the care/breeding between requirements caridina shrimp and neocaridina shrimp different or similar?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Neocaridina shrimp typically like hard water with plenty of dissolved minerals in the water and a higher pH. Caridina shrimp essentially want the opposite.

@periplanetamissionary

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers Got it, saw a lot of videos sating they were difficult to keep just wanted a quick confirmation. Thanks

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Hey, no worries. 🫶🏻

Do you have any tips to remove scuds?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Are you able to add any nano fish to the tank?

@christianzaragoza4877

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers yeah I added guppies but there still there

Do you have a favorite type of repashy?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

I usually feed Community Blend, however my local store was out so I am currently feeding Grub Pie. My fish and shrimp don’t seem to care either way 🤷🏻‍♂️

I see people in fb always chasing for the perfect parameters and then wonder why shrimps die.

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

I know, it just complicates the whole hobby 🫤

Are these feeders?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Nope!

Oak leaves?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

Dried oak leaves are. Great addition to the shrimp tank 👍🏻

@jasonsuffolkuk

Жыл бұрын

@@FishKeepingAnswers are they safe for the fish ?

@FishKeepingAnswers

Жыл бұрын

In my experience, providing you know they are from a safe source (no pesticides or herbicides) then yes 👍🏻

@jasonsuffolkuk

Жыл бұрын

@FishKeepingAnswers what other leaves could i use please?